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The Overweight Denial Issue
Many people have heard about the dangers behind certain weight related disorders such as anorexia. Such psychological disorders may stem from a common ideal of many women to become thin. It can go so far as to create an extreme perception of what "thin" can be. It becomes a case of a distorted self-perception that can easily get out of hand if not addressed at the right time.In the same ... [Read More]
Are Your Instincts Making You Fat?
According to the book The Instinct Diet, the reason why we just got to have that extra helping of whatever food we enjoy is because of our instincts - and it renders our willpower well, powerless, and that that "what we eat is governed by five instincts developed by evolution and survival."Regardless of the controversy surrounding her ideas, The Instinct Diet's author, Susan Roberts, PhD... [Read More]
Does Music Help You Handle Emotional Eating?
Music helps us motivate in a lot of things. Some people study for exams while listening to music, others would put on their iPods while running the treadmill. However, can music help us handle our eating problems? Tons of research have proven how music influences our moods. It can distract you from unpleasant thoughts or emotions; help you remember the good ol' times when you have a bad day; gets ... [Read More]
The Mind-Control Diet
Hot and cold New psychological research has identified the different parts of the brain involved in resisting temptation. The research's lead author Professor Walter Mischel, the psychologist who developed the "marshmallow test", has shown in that to resist temptation, we have to switch activity from what he calls the "hot" parts of the brain to the "cool" parts. &quo... [Read More]
Why You Should Throw Away Your Skinny Jeans
It is something you see on any woman's closet. This piece of clothing has become our generation's corset, only worn on a different body part. The skinny jeans have unofficially become the standard of a healthy person, as these pair of jeans can transform your lower body into slender figures. However, if you have been struggling to fit into those tight jeans, how much dieting you ... [Read More]
Harder for Women to Say No to Foods
A recent brain brain research suggest that women unconsciously have difficulty saying no to their favorite foods than men.Dr. Gene-Jack Wang, author of this research and a senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, thinks that this might be due to the fact that women sometimes have to eat for two. The goal of this r... [Read More]
Understanding Food Addiction
For most of us, the term "food addiction" is something we've never heard of before. Using those two words together just doesn't seem right. And just the notion that you can get addicted to food seems downright absurd.Recently however, medical scans have revealed that there are similarities in the brain chemistry of of drug addicts and chronic overeaters. Food addictionThe surprising simi... [Read More]
How To Avoid Binge Eating
We cannot deny the fact that the foods we crave for aren't the healthy treats that are good for us. Rather, our cravings are that of foods that are high in sugar and fats and carbohydrates-the perfect combination for weight gain. But do you know that you can actually minimize your cravings for the so-called forbidden foods provided that you control your cravings, which is initially formed in the b... [Read More]
What is Emotional Eating?
Some people having trouble dealing with their weight usually have other underlying problems to consider. One of them is emotional eating. Emotional eating is a condition where a person has a tendency to eat as a response to a negative emotion. Stress and anxiety can have different effects on different people. Some people react to such circumstances having a diminished tendency to eat. But for othe... [Read More]
How Stress Can Affect Your Diet
Is there a direct relationship between stress and the food we eat? There is. When was the last time you ate a boxful of chocolate, a gallon of ice cream, or three slices of family size pizza during stressful situations? Through eating we comfort ourselves. But under stressful conditions such as pressure at work, fight with a loved one, or failing to pass a crucial exam, we eat and eat and eat. Wor... [Read More]